Clipping:Catchers not as tough as in the old days; put on equipment when they move under the bat; cup

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Date Wednesday, July 31, 1889
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[from Caylor's column][from a reminiscence about the old Cincinnati Club] I have seen [Doug] Allison stand up behind the bat and catch Brainard's cannon shots without mask, chest-protector or gloves, with the blood dripping from his wounded hand and one eye in chancery from a foul tip. But there are no Allisons catching now. Snyder comes the nearest to Dug in their day and generation. In Allison's day, when it became necessary for the catcher to come up behind the bat after two strikes or when a man reached the bases it didn't require five minutes of time for him to get on his armor. He did not have his head encased in a barbed-wire balloon; he didn't tie himself behind a stuffed mattress; neither did he wear a wire cage to interfere with his running or stick his hand into a stuffed glove the size of an elephant's cheek.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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